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Wilderness Quotes

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

Age Fashion Wilderness You Career

The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought maybe Barack Obama was the one, and when he proved to be mortal after all, they were willing to listen to anyone new.

People Wilderness Thought American

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

Walk Wilderness Create Realize Away

I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.

Jean Craighead George

Life Home World Start Wilderness Go

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

Life School College Wilderness Year

It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

Live Mountains Wilderness Edge Wild

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

Time Wilderness Compromise Process

Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes.

Wilderness America Creating Wildlife

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

James Henry Breasted

Transformation Wilderness America

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

History Great Wilderness Moral Times

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Charles Lindbergh

Life Nature Wilderness Fade Miracle

I've grown up with an active outdoor lifestyle. Before I lived in Australia, I ran a construction company in Oregon, U.S.A. I also owned horses and would spend several weeks a year exploring Oregon's beautiful wilderness areas on horseback.

Beautiful Construction Wilderness

If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

Alone Time Wilderness You Living

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Wilderness Defense Only Idea Needs

Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

Nathaniel Philbrick

River Wilderness You Lake Jungle

Sometimes, when I open my mouth, all hell breaks loose. Other times, I feel like a voice in the wilderness and I wonder, 'Does anybody get this?'

Wilderness Voice Hell Feel Mouth

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Nature Wilderness Universe Forest

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.

Light Spiritual Wilderness Late Even

I think true wilderness can still be found, but it's hard to reach and dangerous when you get there, which is probably why it still exists.

Wilderness Think Reach You Dangerous

All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.

People Me Wilderness Holiday White

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Wilderness Mirrors Living Like Fact

Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.

Man Wilderness Story Alaska Tell He

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

Wilderness Result Fall Rise Own Quo

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty.

Leslie Cockburn

Journey Vision War Wilderness Facts

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